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Sponsored by PCBWay: https://pcbway.com/g/ynWgss All I wanted was to try out NetBSD on a classic Macintosh. Instead, I got capacitors screaming for mercy, a hard drive that refused to spin, a Mac chime that sounded like a (Swiss!) school bell — and plenty of capacitor goo to clean up. In this episode of The Capacitor Chronicles, I dive into restoring both a Macintosh LC II and a Performa 450 (a.k.a. LC III). I even attempted (spoiler: and failed) to recap a dying Quantum hard drive. And why all this effort? Because no working Mac = no running NetBSD. D’oh. Maybe next time! 🎉 Special Thanks for Today Goes To 🎉 💾 David Shell @TheMinocula Your passionate support for retro tech keeps this journey going. Thank you for being a vital member of this channel! 🔔 Subscribe for more retro hardware adventures! 00:00 Intro 00:47 Reviving A Dead Macintosh LC II 04:23 Performa 450 - More Bad Capacitors! 06:23 A Failed Hard Drive Repair 07:52 Installing System 7.5 08:20 Conclusion 08:47 Next on TPC Want to join THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS or THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS community and get a mention in an upcoming video? Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR/join This video was made possible with support by: THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS: Alisha Manuela Stutz Christian Zerrahn David Schell Waseem al sammane ZyeByteVT THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS: Balint Szy Cecil Elinars Feldi HMK Jack Beckman Jack Rosenthal John DiLiberto Luke Granger-Brown Matthew Veety MS-DOS Manfred Steven Glogger Tim Hull Wobinu Films xcalibur839 Z098 Visit also THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR website at https://www.thephintagecollector.ch for insights into my retro computer collection. This presentation, Copyright @ 2025 THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR, Gianpaolo Del Matto. All rights reserved. Individual Copyrights apply for referenced material (see sources). Music composed by 🎶 Abdallah El-Ghannam https://www.youtube.com/@AcrossTheU.S.A | https://www.fiverr.com/abdallahghannam 🎶 rootkitty | https://soundcloud.com/rootkitty ℹ️ Sources: About Macintosh LC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_LC_II https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_lc/specs/mac_lc.html https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_lc/specs/mac_lc_ii.html https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_performa/specs/mac_performa_450.html https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_performa/specs/mac_performa_400.html Mac LC III / Performace 450: Wrong Capacitor Orientation https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/11/the-capacitor-that-apple-soldered-incorrectly-at-the-factory/ Hard Drive Details: https://theretroweb.com/harddrives/1719 https://www.seagate.com/support/disc/manuals/scsi/2160pmb.pdf